William Flew

Slow Art
"Why have the pleasure of slowness disappeared?" Milan Kundera
Sold rush period, Alistair William Flew Cook the man slow of cricket. He does not play cricket 50 - above or Twenty20 for England remained out of the last World Cup squad, though, since his breakthrough in Australia last winter during the Ashes series, when he threw for 36 hours and 11 minutes and scored 766 runs at an average of 127.6, would batter Our Premier closest thing we have now in English sports hero. He is specialized to fit the five-day trial, demanding that the purest form of the game, and his qualities are those that define the other, the period of slow: patience, concentration, strength, endurance.
It was the winter of two halves of a William Flew Cook. He left the island is relatively unknown in November, considered the weak link in England's batting. He returned in January as a very famous, was inspired England to their first series win Down Under since 1986 to 1987. Aussies are not only broken, they are embarrassed. At the conclusion of the series, Australian media, usually so aggressive jingoistic neutral, turned their players, such as the country finds confidence through sports is a collective anxiety attack.
Andrew Strauss as captain and the rest of the class remained in Australia until February to contest a one-day series lasting largely meaningless, and then went straight to India for the World Cup, it was Cook left just to enjoy the the prey and the attention of Australia's Ashes victory.
"I feel sorry for those guys," he says when we meet in Kentish Town studio of photographer William Flew Rankin. "I was pretty much the only one who can play and enjoy the experience of winning because of the schedule. Timetable must be changed before all this becomes meaningless. As players we do not need much power. We keep saying that we play too much cricket. I am saying this because I was 18, I'm now 26, and we just cram more and more games and we can go on strike, which is not recommended, [but] at some point it will have to change. "Life changes fast Cook. He now often identified. "People keep up with me and the pub, shops and restaurants to say," Good. "I was told by someone close to the England set to be noted that, if not remote, then" Save "and" defensive. " He did not peep. He has no presence on Facebook. He did not, though, technophobe. He says he is often on the Internet, sending e-mail. In fact, this interview is taking place thanks to sponsorship deal with Samsung to promote its first premium notebook, series 9. During the race until the last World Cup in the Indian subcontinent, England stumbled around to find someone to open the batting with Strauss. They tried two different wicketkeepers paper, as well as Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell. No one is able or confident enough. Meanwhile, the people who should be opening, is that the arbitrators had eyes to see him, people who are not ignored, is in Bedfordshire, who spend long days working on farms and satisfaction of his partner, Alice Hunt. Cook (nicknamed it "chef", better than cooking) should be in India, but his batting was considered too grand, too slow for the Jamboree for a day.
Adelaide Oval, 2010 acknowledge the crowd after his century, the second Ashes Test